Storage and transport device for plates

Abstract

A device for storing and transporting painted plates, e.g. doors, by means of individual frames known as "door bearers" is described. The invention provides a transport device using one handler only while preventing damage to the transported plates comprising a tubular chassis (10) with rectangular basic frames (14) which may be telescopic in two mutually perpendicular horizontal directions, the corners of which are fitted with vertical posts (22) each pair of which bears possibly telescopic cross-members (26) parallel to transverse shanks (16) on which sit two vertical bars (12) to clamp a horizontal stack of vertically upright frames (36).

I claim: 
     
       1. A device for storing and transporting a plurality of upright rectangular plates, characterized by a tubular chassis comprising a plane rectangular basic frame comprising two parallel longitudinal shanks and two parallel transverse shanks; further comprising a supported post at each corner of said basic frame; and comprising two parallel cross-members mounted at the upper ends of said posts above said transverse shanks; and further characterized by two pairs of vertical bars, each bar of each of said paris being mounted on a slide displaceable on one of said cross-members and provided with means for fixing the position of said slide and of the vertical bar mounted thereon with respect to said one cross-member. 
     
     
       2. Device according to claim 1, characterised in that the cross-members are longer than the transverse shanks of the basic frame and have free ends. 
     
     
       3. Device according to claim 1, in which the transverse shanks and the cross-members are telescopic, characterized in that the transverse shanks and the cross-members are each comprised of two tubes, a first and second, of identical profile and of a third tube of similar profile inserted in the aforesaid tubes, which third tube is fixed in the first tube and arranged to be longitudinally displaceable in the second tube; and in that a fourth tube of identical profile adapted in length to the selected clear distance between the first and the second tube is to be arranged on the third tube, between the first and the second tube. 
     
     
       4. Device according to claim 2, in which the transverse shanks and the cross-members are telescopic, characterized in that the transverse shanks and the cross-members are each comprised of two tubes, a first and second, of identical profile and of a third of similar profile inserted in the aforesaid tubes, which third tube is fixed in the first tube and arranged to be longitudinally displaceable in the second tube; and in that a fourth tube of identical profile adapted in length to the selected clear distance between the first and the second tube is to be arranged on the third tube, between the first and the second tube. 
     
     
       5. Device according to claim 3, wherein the second tube is provided with a screw with a hand lever fixing in position the third tube in said second tube.